I have the sudden urge to look up and subscribe to a Lego Sporecast now.

Also, to the comment about missions being repeatitive: Am I the only one that came across a chain mission in my Space game?

It started out as a boring mission (Go to this planet and scan these animals for our computer) only to be immediately handed three new missions after that. It was similar to the tutorial mission where they teach you how to use the radar, abduction beam, and laser one after the other. Only this time, it was an actual mission. I found that one mission more pleasing than the ones everyone seems to be getting and complaining about.

If the mission editor allows us to construct chain missions, I say bring them on!

And how. As long as the expansions keep having good content, I'm a self-admitted cash cow.

This mission editor thing sounds like a GREAT idea. Another thing I'd like to see is some means of customizing the Empires that you make. Empires should be able to be distributed as whole packages for one, with ships and buildings all included. Second, some things should be customizable. Why is every Zealot all about this "Spode" character? Can't I have an Empire that praises Tlaloc instead? (F-yeah, Tlaloc)

I'd like to see a way to make an Empire and then design how they'll act in-game. One of my Space-outfitted Creatures has in the description that they want to spread harmony. It annoys me that they might appear as Warriors in-game, or Traders.

Regarding the price of these new parts, the math has been done by figuring out how many parts your paying for, but that's not really what your getting. How many new combinations of parts are you getting? Not that I really care either way. I won't be getting the add-on until it goes down in price or I buy it and an expansion with gameplay additions at the same time so I get as much new content together as possible, rather than small changes over time. It would probably drop in price by then anyway.

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MinorAnnoyance wrote:Regarding the price of these new parts, the math has been done by figuring out how many parts your paying for, but that's not really what your getting. How many new combinations of parts are you getting?

The combinations you can get are potentially endless. I mean, just look at how many creatures you can make from the free trial version of Creature Creator.

Missions won't expand gameplay! The universe is still the same, it's limitations are still the same!
What we NEED are deeper personality generation and greater interaction options for NPC empires. What we NEED is science injected back into the game. THAT will produce greater gameplay!

This is nothing more than a Band-Aid™ over the problem. NOTHING. It's a superficial attempt at making Spore SEEM more grand when, in fact, all it works out to be is more distraction.

I don't know about any of you, but after doing about fifteen of them, I stopped taking missions. They're all the same: retrieve this, blow up that, cull this herd, etc, etc... Whoopita. Do you REALLY expect greater gameplay depth to come from this?

Don't be distracted by bread and circuses, people...demand MEAT.

Exactly my thoughts. Adding more missions, and user created missions, means nothing if the actual gameplay is not enhanced / further developed. What do I care wether the 'quest for the tome of science' came from Maxis or another player? It's still fly here, get this, come back.

EA is confusing 'more' and 'better'. More, without better, is just more of the same.

Because you have seen exactly the type of missions that are going to be possible, and know for sure that they are going to be basic fetch quests that do not have any real purpose, right? I mean, everybody knows that Maxis is not able to possibly make something better, more interesting, and more fun.

May the Brambler Empire bring peace to the galaxy... as long as the Oston Empire doesn't buy it first.
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